Jeremiah 44:7-19

7Now then thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why are you 1doing great harm to yourselves, so as to 2cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant, 83provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, 4burning 5sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to reside, so that you might be cut off and become a 6curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 9Have you forgotten the 7wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10But they 8have not become 9contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor 10walked in My law or My statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers.”’

11“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am going to 11set My face against you for 12woe, even to cut off all Judah. 12And I will 13take away the remnant of Judah who have set their 14mind on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all 1516meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and meet their end by famine. Both small and great will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a 17curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach. 13And I will 18punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine and with pestilence. 14So there will be 19no refugees or survivors for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to reside there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are 2021longing to return and live; for none will 22return except a few refugees.’”

15Then 23all the men who were aware that their wives were burning 24sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, 25including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying, 16“As for the 2627message that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, 28we are not going to listen to you! 17But rather we will certainly 29carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, 30by burning 31sacrifices to the 32queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as 33we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had 34plenty of 35food and were well off and saw no 36misfortune. 18But since we stopped burning 37sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have 38lacked everything and have 39met our end by the sword and by famine.” 19“And,” said the women, “when we were 40burning 41sacrifices to the queen of heaven and 42were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it 43without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes 44in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”